Chess Course Tools
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If you only use one tool, use the chess course finder: enter your rating and one goal (weekly hours and a budget are optional) and it lists free options first, with the reason shown for each result. The other tools help once you have a shortlist and want to check cost or plan your weeks.
Find a course
- Chess course finder: results by rating and goal from the site's dated catalogue of 205 listings from six sources, read on 8 November 2026. It matches what sellers publish and does not measure teaching quality.
- Opening repertoire to course mapper: tick the openings you play and see which catalogue courses are tagged to each. A tag does not mean a course covers every variation you need.
Check the cost
- Price-per-hour calculator: divides a price by the listed hours. Listed hours are not the time it takes to learn the material, so use it to compare, not to schedule.
- Subscription break-even calculator: compares a yearly subscription with buying the courses you want one by one, and shows how many months of monthly billing equal the yearly price. Its only built-in prices are ChessMood's two yearly plans; you fill in the rest.
- Course price and refund tracker: list price, any sale price and published refund terms for each catalogue row, with the date last read. Confirm on the seller's page before paying.
Plan your study
- Weekly study planner: splits your weekly minutes across topics using starting weights that are ours, based on a coaching convention, and meant to be edited. It promises no rating gain.
How the tools handle data
Prices and terms in the tools carry a date and a source, and the tools ask you for any value we cannot confirm. Pages explaining the method are at how we review. For reading rather than calculating, see the buying guides and free chess training resources, or return to the home page.